tepidity
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck faced allegations of harassing behaviour, and when he offered an unimpressive denial, companies funded by his firm banded together to condemn his tepidity.
From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2017
The people we meet in Little Children are bewildered, frozen in shock at the tepidity of the present, even though they have worked their whole lives to get exactly where they are.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may be an exaggeration, but not much of one, to say that Klee's development was a long struggle to transcend his innate tepidity.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a brilliant Harvard undergraduate, he fell into step briefly with the Fabian Socialists, a tepid movement whose very tepidity appealed to him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dear brethren, draw for yourselves the contrast between the eagerness with which you pursue that, and the tepidity with which you pursue this.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander
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